[dabossinokc]

I have read dozens of different opinions on what temperatures to keep a reef tank at and everyone has a different answer. Now I know that some of it is dependent on what you have in your reef tank and I have dove in the ocean with most of what is my reef tank and the water temperature ranged from 74F-76F. I am currently keeping my tank at 76 with my chiller that keeps it within 1 degree Fh of where I currently have it set. The highest the temp will get is 77fh before the chiller kicks on. This is what I have in the tank currently / 2 leather corals, 2 button polyps, 2 star polyps, 3 colt corals, some candy coral, a frog spawn, a huge medusa, a featherstar, 4 tangs, a huge brain coral, a coral beauty, a golden rod(Gorgonian) various clean up crews, an usbi foxface, and something that I honestly cannot find the name of so I will leave it out. Now everything seems pretty happy except for one of the leathers and one of the colt corals, but I just want to make sure that for long term care that 76Fh is the right temperature to keep it at to please everything in the tank at present.

[golfish]

Originally Posted by dabossinokc

I have read dozens of different opinions on what temperatures to keep a reef tank at and everyone has a different answer.

you'll probably get different opionions here too....IME, anything between 76 and 82 is just fine...I'm sure some go a little higher or lower without any problems. I feel the key is to keep the swing within 1-3 degrees. I have my controller set to keep things 78-80.